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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 56

How War Affects Shipping

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

The war is having a somewhat marked effect on the shipping trade, and therefore indirectly upon trade generally. Merchants are now beginning to find difficulty…

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War with the Boers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

May the Australians have as great success in South Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring Company's Branch (No. 2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.C.A. building…

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Risks Run by War Correspondents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 10

Many people run away with the idea that the average war correspondent is an man who does a modicum of work for a very great deal of pay, and whose share of any…

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The War Australians Fall Into an Ambush. Five Killed. Eight Australians Taken Prisoners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—A patrol, consisting of sixteen men of the New South Wales Lancers and South Australian Horse, got into a Boer ambush…

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The Soldier Up-to-date

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 11

Some interesting particulars are given concerning the young soldier's position and prospects with the colours In "Chambers's Journal" for December. During the past…

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War Notes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 5

A War Employment Bureau has been formed by some of the leading commercial men and employers of female labour ill London, who have agreed to give preferential…

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War with the Boers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 4

May the Australians have as great success in South Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring Company's Branch (No. 2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.C.A. building…

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A War Office Correction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The War Office notifies that it is Victor Jones, of the Queenslanders, who was killed at Sunnyside, and that Arthur Jones, of…

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Attacks on the War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 8

The more our suspense is prolonged as to the fate of the three invested forces at Ladismith, Kimberley, and Mafeking, writes the London correspondent…

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Death of a War Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. S. W. Stevens, the special war correspondent of the "Daily Mail," who in the Soudan campaign made a great reputation by…

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The War Buller's Strategic Movements. Important Developments The Boers Outwitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Boers have destroyed by an explosion a bridge they were building over the Tugela, seven miles west of Pontgieter's Drift,…

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The War The General Advance. Lytrelton Pushing On. Shelling the Enemy's Trenches. the Crossing of the Tugela

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.—General Lyttelton has occupied a kopje within 2000 yards of the Boers' position. The enemy's trenches have been…

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War Notes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

The various British societies in and about, Chicago have formed an organisation styled the "Society of Sons and Daughters of the British Empire,"…

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War Notes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 5

"Shells and files," says a message from Ladismith, "are very numerous, but the latter are the most annoying." The following Boer proclamation was…

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The Attention to the Wounded. Arrangements Almost Perfect

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Sir William M'Cormac, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, principal medical officer in South Africa, considers that…

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War with the Boers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 5

May the Australians have as great success in South Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring Company's Branch (No. 2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.C.A. building…

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The War General Warren's Advance. Sunday's Fighting. a Position Taken with the Bayonet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—During the fighting on Sunday, when Lieutenant-General Warren's force engaged the Boers at Spion Kop, the Dublin Fusiliers'…

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War with the Boers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 5

May the Australians have as great success in South Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring company's Branch (No. 2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.C.A. building…

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The War a Brave Guardsman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Private St. John, the champion boxer of the 1st battalion of the Grenadier Guards, killed eleven Boers at Belmont before…

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A Hint to the War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 5

Miss Kate Santley writes to the "Era":—"General Gatacre states distance was under-estimated by self. Had not the General a map, or some knowledge of the country;…

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